Nobel peace prize-winning president: I’m really good at killing people
Yeah, I know this is fairly old news, but I thought I’d get it on record. According to CBS News DC, in the book “Double Down: Game Change 2012” by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the president reportedly bragged to aides that he is “really good at killing people” referring to the administration’s drone strategy in the Middle East.
President Bush caught a load of crap for telling the terrorists to “bring it on” after a series of threats, but he never bragged about killing people.
The White House had not officially commented on the alleged remarks, but senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer dismissed a series of reports from the book, including one that showed Obama campaign officials deciding whether to replace Vice President Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton.
“The president is always frustrated about leaks,” Pfeiffer said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I haven’t talked to him about this book. I haven’t read it. He hasn’t read it. But he hates leaks.”
And, oh, by the way, he ain’t killing nobody. It’s being done at his discretion, but he’s not the one doing it, no matter how much the little Walter Mitty turd wants everyone to think he’s doing it. It’s the people making ten percent of his salary that are doing it, the ones who are lining up for treatment at the VA, the ones who are killing themselves – the ones who are lucky enough to survive Obama’s rules of engagement.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War
“The president is always frustrated about leaks”
So says the most transparent administration eveh.
What an arrogant and dangerous man we have sitting in the Oval office… dangerous because of his callous and amateurish views of the world we live in. Bush had his faults, but this man is by far the most pathetic excuse of a human being to occupy that Office in decades.
Too bad he doesn’t hate those who want us all dead as much as he hates leakers. Apparently that is all that upsets him – being accurately quoted is unforgiveable but killing Americans is just fine.
Wasn’t he the Chosen One? The ‘golden child’? Or something like that? And now it’s fraying more and more. OH, pity pooh.
I think that the rats may start jumping ship before long. Karmic backlash is going to be unpleasant to its recipient. Anyone heard from drunk uncle jodaveep lately? Or has he been shuffled off into a corner with a bottle of booze?
@4, I am still waiting for him to heal the oceans…
Obumbles is getting more and more irrelevant each day. Those Eurotrash who were so in love with him five years ago now won’t return his calls–probably because they’re bugged anyway. Gallup has him down at 40 percent, despite a full-court full-time fellating of Obumbles by the MSM. If they gave him the same coverage and breaks they gave Bush, he’d likely be in the 20’s.
Ex-PH2: considering who it was who “chose” him, I think you should spell that “Teh Chosin Wun”.
The quote is buried in the Hamby review of the book, almost as if Hamby thought, “Well, I had better stick in here somewhere or I’ll be accused of purposely omitting it to protect the president.” So, it’s there, in the middle of a page two, sandwiched between a mastectomy mention and something about Clint Eastwood. Obama says he is good at killing people? Who says that? Who the hell says that? F him. “Did he just say F the president?” Yes, he did.
Hondo, I stand corrected.
I have a lifetime habit of correct spelling which started with getting straight “A”s in grade school for spelling, arithmetic and reading. I just don’t fit in with the illiterati of today.
But seriously, folks, this timeframe from February 2013 until February 2015 will probably continue in the same vein – arrogance, denial and outright lying – unless someone pulls up the rug and sweeps the dirt out frmo under it.
I got into the Wayback Machine and went back to Nixon’s administration with Sherman and Mr. Peabody, and found that the parallells were downright creepy. Those missing 18.5 minutes of taped conversation — well, some day, some tech geek will be able to recover what it said. I don’t think they were ordering pizza. And the comparison between that admin and this one for skulduggery is just plain weird.
Either that, or I ate too much Hallowe’en candy.
Hamby’s review is interesting. Now I have to get what will probably be the only hot-mess gossip book I will ever own. If it weren’t a good read, Hamby can’t justify spending so much time discussing it.
I’m glad to know that Christie is worse than any Chicago politician. He does, in fact, take Chicago-style one step further toward Cicero-style politics, so he isn’t just an overbearing, confrontational sort.
It might be argued that he is capable enough at having people killed, but I kind of doubt that he would bother actually getting his own hands dirty.
The left is hubris and narcissism (“we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”, “yes we can”). Obama is an almost perfect manifestation of those characteristics, so of course lefties love him. Don’t expect them to turn against him for what he actually says or does.
I’m just curious–has a Nobel Prize ever been rescinded?
@12. No, it can’t be. According to the Nobel rules, no appeal of an award is permitted and, w/o an appeal there is nothing to be considered by the august body of jerks.
It’s just the waterboy spiking the football.
Sparky, to his adoring fans he’s ended the wars and kept AQ down by killing them with drones…of course he’s killing them inside the airspace of sovereign nations we are not at war with at this time….that’s not always a bright idea.
I keep asking the question, and no one seems to be able to answer it for me, what happens when AQ realizes the same hobby drone I can build for a $1000 that carries a payload large enough to kill a few people…what will be the reponse? We are killing people remotely now, we can’t realistically expect our enemies not to adopt the technology…and the US is a target rich environment…imagine a drone with a simple cell phone GPS chip in it, it requires minimal programming ability to get that drone to navigate at 400 feet to a destination 15 minutes from where it was launched descend to 6 feet and detonate…
You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out how that application could be used…
Woodrow Wilson squeaked out re-election in 1916 with the slogan “He kept us out of war.” We all know how that worked out. He won the Nobel Peace prize in 1919. Hitler was nominated for the prize but, surprisingly, he didn’t win. Go figure. The United Nations won it in 2001, followed by Jimmy Carter in 2002. And who could possibly forget the 2007 winners, both Al Gore and the UN panel on climate change! Nice to know that politics has no place in the prize committee’s considerations, isn’t it?
Oh, don’t be so down in the mouth about it, 2/17 AirCav.
Remember, Mother Teresa also got that award, and asked that the money for the dinner party be used to feed the poor. There are some nice people who get the nod now and then.
Hitler was nominated? I did not know that. Now, that would be embarrassing, wouldn’t it?
No normal person would say this. If he did say it, and he very probably did, it shows he is not mentally stable.
@18 – I agree. I’m sure quite a few veterans can make the same claim, but would never utter those words in public.
It sure would’ve been nice if he had been ‘good at killing people’ during the Benghazi fiasco.
@20 How do you know he wasn’t? It depends on who he wanted dead, doesn’t it?
Ex-PH2: no more so than the allegedly-former terrorist Yassir Arafat sharing the Nobel Peace prize in 1994.